Welcome to TOYS OF TERROR, Fango’s weekly feature exhibiting the coolest horror accessories across the web. Whether you’re a collector, connoisseur or simply making your love of horror a family affair, these petrifying playthings are likely to impress even the most heartless horror fan. So if you’re searching for a ghoulish gift, look no further…

This past August it was revealed Millennium Films are soldiering on with the TEXAS CHAINSAW series, opting for another prequel, and one that focuses on the young years of Leatherface. To be written by Seth M. Sherwood the slasher coming-of-age is actively seeking its director, and it seems in both cases of courting, director might be directors.

Readers of both FANGORIA magazine and especially Fangoria.com (as well as our sister website Starlog.com) know the name Ken Hanley. Ken started as an intern with Fango some years back and has parlayed his passion for strange cinema into a prominent role writing and co-editing our sites, as well as contributing to a myriad other publications.

At the stroke of six p.m. on Friday October 17th, MASCARA & POPCORN’S Body Horror Contest commences. Short films will be shown and gory FX shown off, live performances, freak performances, all thanks to our Mistress of Ceremonies Florence Touliatos (Freaky Miss T) and crew. Winners will walk away with the coveted Golden Skull by audience vote for the best of the best for shorts. As Touliatos has put it, “the whole world has to come.” Well, there is your invite world, now get to it.

The lure of merely taking a walk on board the famous Queen Mary has never been enough for me to make the trek to Long Beach. When haunted mazes filled with ghouls and ghosts are added into the equation however…

Currently haunting theatres across the continent is the James Wan-produced ANNABELLE, a creepy prequel to his hit 2013 flick THE CONJURING (read our review here) directed by John R. Leonetti and FANGORIA is giving you the chance to catch it for free!

The Season of the Witch is upon us, ye olde FANGORIA readers! To many, Halloween means candy, costumes and creepshows of all sorts. But to the staff at FANGORIA, Halloween can mean something more entirely. Therefore, we present 30 for 31, in which FANGORIA recounts the cinema that most strongly represents what Halloween means to us.

One of the most celebrated and diverse film festivals in Toronto is the ImagineNATIVE fest, a film and media arts festival that celebrates the film, video, radio and new media works of indigenous people. The four-day festival includes screenings of films by national and international aboriginals that speak to various cultural and social events.

Multimedia scribe Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has become the go-to guy for new, sometimes unique takes on popular horror properties. In this exclusive FANGORIA chat from last weekend’s New York Comic-Con, he discusses his meta redux of THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN, the status of the AMERICAN PSYCHO musical, his darker revival of SABRINA for Archie Comics and more.

Last November, I was privileged to be invited down to Pátzcuaro, Mexico for the annual Mórbido Fest, an all-encompassing celebration of the macabre. With a lineup that spanned all of the Americas and beyond, as well as art exhibits, lucha libre and late night screenings of horror favorites, Mórbido proved another stellar example of a film festival brimming with community, support and enthusiasm. Now, 2014’s edition is rapidly approaching and an exciting First Wave of programming has been revealed.

Welcome to Shadowvision, a regular column in which Fangoria.com revisits modern horror films in black and white. The purpose is to analyze these films through a new lens, seeing if the classically informed viewing experience will give a new angle to familiar images. If you’d like to watch along at home, it’s simple: go into your TV settings and desaturate the picture completely, then adjust the contrast and brightness to fit either standard or high definition.